Connecting with God through poetic articulations of lived, embodied experience–engaging texts from the Revised Common Lectionary for Christian churches, other biblical and spiritual texts, and evocations of the divine in rituals and other public events–always accepting lived reality as a primary source of divine revelation and mystery.

Grieving

Reflection on Holy Saturday, Year A

Can we pause today, take stock of how we feel after watching Jesus bleed to death on the cross? We know he will come back, we prepare for the feast to come tomorrow, but today can we find a way to do as Joseph of Arimathea did, care for the dead body, or sit shiva as Jews and friends do? Or do we, like some who opposed Jesus, post a guard around our hearts so he cannot touch us from the tomb?

This is the day God has made, we may not wish to rejoice, and yet cannot our tears water a tree cut down that it may sprout again, emerging from the womb of our soul, leaking like tremors of pure sunlight against tides of death and destruction, reminding us in the quiet of desperation that God is always more— keep watch bear witness.